COMMENTARY:
: 12 I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. (941 “bear” [bastazo] means carry, take up, to take up in order to carry or bear, to sustain, uphold, to cognitively receive something difficult to understand or accept, or undergo.)
DEVOTION: Sometimes we want to run … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 2 Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away: and every branch that bears fruit, he purges it, that it may bring forth more fruit. (2508 “purges” [kathairo] means to cleanse, prune, clear unproductive wood, purify, or expiate.)
DEVOTION: Once we become followers of Christ or HIS disciples, HE … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 2 In MY Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. (3438 “mone] means abode, dwelling, room, a hospitable area (within a house or building) where a person can remain for a period of time, or stopping place.… Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 2 And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him. (1228 “devil” [diabolos] means false accuser, slanderer, Satan, wicked person, demon, or given to malicious gossip.)
DEVOTION: The Bible instructs us concerning the sources of temptation we face. In James 3: 15 … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein. (2812 “thief” [kleptes] means an embezzler, pilferer, a criminal who typically relies on stealth to take property belonging to someone else, or a person who steals.… Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. (25 “loved” [agapao] means beloved, to be fond of, to love dearly, to be contented at or with a thing, to have a strong, non-sexual affection and love for a person and their good as understood by God’s moral character, or to take pleasure … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him; for they know not the voice of strangers. (245 “stranger”[allotrios] means another man, foreign, not of one’s own family, an enemy, a person who does not belong in the environment in which they are found, or one belonging to another, or … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 2 And HIS disciples asked HIM, saying Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? (1118 “parents” [goneus] means the father and mother who produce, nurture, and raise a child, considered collectively, generator, biological or legal parents, or begetter.)
DEVOTION: There are false teachings that we … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. (1651 “convicted” [elegcho] means bring to light, to shame by exposure, reprove, rebuke, convince, tell one’s faults, … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 5 For neither did his brethren believe in him. (4100 “believe” [pisteuo] means commit to, to put in trust with, to think to be true, have Christian faith, entrust, have confidence, or rely on.)
DEVOTION: Mary had more children after the birth of Jesus. There were at least four brothers and two or … Read More